Memory

• What are the three stores of memory ?

  sensory register

  short term memory

  long term memory
• Sensory register


  modality specific

  very large

  250ms
• Short term memory


  acoustically

  7+/-2

  18-30 seconds
• Long term memory 


  Semantically

  unlimited

  unlimited
• How does information pass through the stores ?

  In a linear fashion
• How are things remembered MSM


  sensory stimuli enter the sensory register

  if paid attention to they enter the short term memory

  the rehearsal loop maintains the STMs through maintenance rehearsal

  they may enter the LTM
• Procedure of Research of coding of short and long term memory


  participants are presented

  acoustically similar and dissimilar words

  semantically similar and dissimilar words

  They then write down the words 20s after they’re presented